2nd killing linked to Voorhees murder-suicide

Doctor's girlfriend found murdered in N.C.

12:09 AM,
Apr. 13, 2012

Written by

GEORGE MAST
| Courier-Post Staff

A South Jersey doctor who killed a one-time colleague and then himself in an ambush in Voorhees on Wednesday is now also believed to have murdered his girlfriend just days before in North Carolina.

Authorities said 35-year-old Shawna Givens was found shot to death in her Fayetteville, N.C., home shortly after noon on Wednesday.

By then, 39-year-old Giocondo "Joe" Navek was dead as well - having turned a .357-caliber handgun on himself shortly after shooting and killing Payman Houshmandpour as he backed out of his parking spot at his Voorhees apartment complex. ...